The Miller Centre Theatre Company at 30 Godstone Road, Caterham CR3 6RA are performing 'An Ideal Husband' from Thursday 16th February to Saturday 25th February. For further information and to purchase tickets call the Miller Centre Box Office on 01883 349850, website www.millercentretheatre.org The nominated charity for 'An Ideal Husband' is the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) East Surrey Branch.

'An Ideal Husband' is Oscar Wilde's famous story about a young politician destined for a dazzling career. He could lose everything, including his wife, when blackmailed by a woman from his past.

Always concerned with the manners of the upper classes, Wilde takes us into the world of politics and questions of honour among the people who govern. Sir Robert Chiltern is a junior minister in the government of the day: rich, influential and a pillar of the late-Victorian establishment, destined for the highest office. Into his life comes the mysterious Mrs Cheveley, a woman with shadowy contacts among the highest echelons of power in Europe.

Mrs Cheveley brings with her a fatally damaging secret that she uses to compromise Chiltern's position in government and in society – a possibility that shocks Chiltern's wife and risks her loyalty. In unfolding this dilemma, Wilde mixes bleak morality with his usual garnish of wit and observation, making this a thoroughly entertaining excursion into the elegant drawing rooms of high society in late-19th century London.